Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, there would be a quick stopover at Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, for a tour d'horizon of the problems of Latin America while his plane refueled...
...whole, Communist terrorism appears to be waning in Latin America. For one thing, the hemisphere's major Communist leaders agreed at last January's Tricontinental Conference in Havana to abandon their violent revolutionary line in favor of the via pacifica, which calls for subtle infiltration of Latin American governments and cooperation with other leftist parties in United Fronts. For another, Communist subversion during the past year has suffered severe setbacks in three major target countries-Peru, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Still, in other places Communist operations are neither very pacifica nor subtle. Items...
...Latin American governments can long survive without the support of the Catholic Church, and nowhere is this fact more important than in Argentina. There, the cardinal ranks third in official protocol and regularly moves in presidential circles. To prove his own strong Catholic bent, Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía constantly refers to religion in his speeches and has had large contingents of priests on hand on ceremonial occasions. Yet last week many churchmen were showing signs of washing their hands of his revolution and his government...
Died. Jules Dubois, 56, dean of Latin America correspondents, an aggressive, often corrosive journalist who spent 19 years south of the border for the Chicago Tribune, dodging bullets, getting beaten with rifle butts, being jailed, deported and mobbed, all the while ceaselessly badgering news-shy governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...
...knows how many millions of Potter books have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...